PHILO-120 Lecture 13: Philo 120 (spring) - C13
28 Oct 2020
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1) it is always wrong and unjust to hang an innocent person knowingly. 2) doctors should not kill patients who want to live. Why do we need to look at calculations? are these not obvious? these principles sometimes appeal to conflict with utilitarianism. Maybe doctors should treat all patients equally without judging their lives. Mill is aware of the conflict between utilitarianism and the intuitive principles. he wants to: 1) deny that they are the foudations of ethics. 2) argue that utlitarianism doesnt conflict with them very much. 3) utilitarianism would not support them as perfectly rigid principles, but would accept modify principles that allow for acceptions. Claim: just and unjust has to do with what things we should punish. Not-mill: x is unjust if and only if x should be punished legally or in some way. Person unjustly attained by police has the right to demand to be freed.
